Week 82: Case 6

1. Presented by Fred Askin, M.D. and prepared by Jeffrey Seibel, M.D. Ph.D.

The patient is a 60 year-old male with severe immunosuppression. He developed shortness of breath and homogeneous opacities were noted throughout the lung. Bronchoscopy demonstrated a whitish pseudo-membrane almost completely covering the mucosa of the segmental bronchi.

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